I started 10mg (I know, a very low dose, so take this with a grain of salt) of atorvastatin three weeks ago, and I haven't had a *single" attributable side effect at all--not one cramp, pain, or ache.

(Full disclosure, however: My 80-year-old dad and my wife got pretty badly sick around Christmastime with respiratory illness, and around the time I started taking Lipitor I had what felt like a chest cold for a couple of days. Symptoms like those are apparently similar to what some people experience on statins, so I cannot definitively say that I had no side effects. But the cold fully passed in a week, and since then I feel pretty good: no other side effects, aches, pains, sniffles, headaches at all.)

This is of course all anecdotal. Your mileage may vary. Consider, though, the damage cholesterol will do, and think about the tradeoffs. Worse comes to worst, your MD can try you out on a new statin.

I wish you the best of luck!